Preface
Bert Musschenga: What makes us moral? An introduction
Part I: Morality, evolution and rationality
Alejandro Rosas: Rationality and deceit; Why rational egoism cannot make us moral
Katharine Browne: Two problems of cooperation
Catherine Herfeld and Katrien Schaubroeck: The importance of commitment; How Harry Frankfurt’s concept of care contributes to Rational Choice Theory
Markus Christen and Thomas Ott: Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency
Part II: Morality and the continuity between human and nonhuman primates
Bert Musschenga: Animal morality and human morality
Florian Cova: Two kinds of moral competence; Moral agent, moral judge
Andrés Luco: Humean moral motivation
Harry Wels: Whispering empathy; Transdisciplinary reflections on research methodology
Part III: Nativism and non-nativism
Jessy Giroux: The origin of moral norms and the role of innate dispositions
Carsten Fogh Nielsen: It’s complicated – Moral nativism, moral input, and moral development
Julia Hermann: Learning to be moral
Gerben Meynen: Why mental disorders can diminish responsibility; Proposing a theoretical framework
Darcia Narvaez: Natural morality, moral natures and human flourishing
Part IV: Religion and (im)morality
Stephen Maitzen: Atheism and the basis of morality
Anton van Harskamp: What makes the martyr (im)moral?
Bettine Siertsema: Moral lessons from monstrosity; The Kindly Ones and the reader
Part V: Morality beyond naturalism
David Rose: Society and the origin of moral law: Giambattista Vico and non-reductive naturalism
Adam Seligman: Enacting the moral: concrete particularity and subjunctivespace
About the authors
Index of names and subjects
